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Pianist Robert Satterlee to Perform on Sunday

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Pianist Robert Satterlee will perform at Hope College on Sunday, Jan. 26, at 2 p.m.
in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.

The public is invited. Admission is free.

The program will consist of the “Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903,” by Johann
Sebastian Bach; “Le Tombeau de Couperin,” by Maurice Ravel; “Dreadful Memories (After
Aunt Molly Jackson)” and “Winnsboro cotton mill blues” from “Four North American Ballads,”
by Frederic Rzewski; and “Fantasy and Fugue on the theme B-A-C-H,” by Franz Liszt.

Satterlee has developed a reputation as an accomplished and versatile solo recitalist
and chamber musician. He plays regularly throughout the United States, and has appeared
on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, San Francisco’s Old First Concert
Series, the Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minn., the Music Teachers National Association
national conventions, the Quad Cities Mozart Festival, and many colleges and universities.

In the summer of 2011, he played concerts at the new Romanian-American festival in
Romania, the World Piano Conference in Serbia and at the Interlochen Arts Center in
Michigan. He recently was a featured performer at the Piano Plus Festival and the
Corfu Festival in Greece and has also played concerts in China, Thailand, Sweden,
the Netherlands and Kenya. He has been heard in radio broadcasts throughout the United
States, most notably on Minnesota Public Radio and WFMT in Chicago.

Contemporary music plays an important role in Satterlee’s performing activity, and
he has given premieres of several works. Satterlee’s most recent commissioning project
centers around the American composer William Albright, a long-time member of the faculty
at the University of Michigan. Satterlee commissioned his former students and colleagues
to write solo piano works in Albright’s memory, which he paired with Albright’s seminal
work, the “Five Chromatic Dances.”

Satterlee’s avid interest in chamber music has led him to collaborate with members
of the Chicago, London, Philadelphia and Detroit Symphony Orchestras in chamber music
performances, and he was co-artistic director of Chamber Music Quad Cities, an organization
presenting a concert series and music festival in Iowa and Illinois. He was also
a member of the North Coast Chamber Players, a string/winds mixed ensemble which toured
extensively on the West Coast.

Satterlee was appointed in the fall of 1998 to the piano faculty of Bowling Green
State University in Ohio, having previously held teaching positions in Illinois, Missouri,
California and Connecticut. He teaches at the Interlochen Arts Camp and the Saarburg
International Music Festival in Germany during summers. He has been awarded prizes
in many competitions, among them honors in the St. Louis Symphony Young Artists Competition.
Satterlee has participated in many music festivals and summer programs, including
the Aspen Festival, the Banff Centre, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Festival
at Sandpoint. He holds degrees in piano from Yale University, Peabody Conservatory,
and the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music.

Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th
Street.

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